Holiday= I can text you at midnight!

[McDreidel09]

Before anyone starts telling me "Why don't you keep your phone oooofffff?", I need to say this: I have my phone left on because I have a great uncle who is dying of cancer. He could die any day now. I also can't stand having an alarm clock because the glowing numbers keep me awake. Cellphones stop glowing after a while. Plus, I would expect my friends to have the courtesy not to text or call me unless it is an emergency.

So at midnight, I got a text saying "Happy Easter!"

Why is it that every holiday, the rules of sleeping courtesy suddenly don't exist? I am okay with midnight texts on New Year's. However, I don't like texts at midnight on Christmas,Easter,Thanksgiving,St Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day,Halloween, or even my own birthday.

If you are one of these people who do this, that's fine if you do, but I hate it being done to me and I won't do it to anyone else.

Does this bother anyone else, or is it just me being a cranky bitch?

[Hobbs]

maybe 20% cranky bitch. I dunno 'bout you, but I'm usually still up during holidays, and so are most of my friends.

[Plaidman]

maybe 20% cranky bitch. I dunno 'bout you, but I'm usually still up during holidays, and so are most of my friends.

I'm a residental night owl. I'm usually up well past midnight. In off beat chance I am asleep, I put my TEXT on silence, and my phone on. That way texts don't wake me, but if someone calls I can answer it in case of emergency.

[McDreidel09]

maybe 20% cranky bitch. I dunno 'bout you, but I'm usually still up during holidays, and so are most of my friends.

I'm not up very late usually. I'm trying to re-train my body to go to sleep at a good time and stay asleep throughout the night, so when I return to work for the summer, it won't be as hard. School has been really hard on my sleeping schedule.

[Fryk]

I, too, am a night owl. And that would still piss me off. Why? Because after about nine o'clock or so, I like to not have to worry about the outside world trying to bug me, and I can just relax and be me.

[Plaidman]

I, too, am a night owl. And that would still piss me off. Why? Because after about nine o'clock or so, I like to not have to worry about the outside world trying to bug me, and I can just relax and be me.

Turn off phone .

Meh. I don't have to worry. I rarely get calls that late.

[blas87]

I got all those texts today between noon and 5 pm. Of course I was infuriated, I was trying to sleep because I go back to work tonight.

I have a problem with anyone who thinks nothing of texting me any old time of day, having no regard for the shift that I work.

I don't want an alarm clock, either. I shouldn't have to get one just because people are rude and inconsiderate. And why ditch the phone just in case there were a real emergency?

[Plaidman]

I got all those texts today between noon and 5 pm. Of course I was infuriated, I was trying to sleep because I go back to work tonight.

I have a problem with anyone who thinks nothing of texting me any old time of day, having no regard for the shift that I work.

Thus is why I keep a record of when I can and cannot text/call of my friends. So that I don't annoy them. Put the foot down on them, and kick their ass if they do

[MadMike]

Thus is why I keep a record of when I can and cannot text/call of my friends. So that I don't annoy them. Put the foot down on them, and kick their ass if they do

Exactly. I'm a nightowl too, but I know not everyone is. And while I turn my phone off when I go to bed, I know more and more people are ditching their landlines and can't just turn their cell phone off.

[blas87]

I am able to put texts on vibrate or silence, but if I turn the ringer off, then my alarm doesn't work. Hence why people kept patronizing me to get an alarm clock, and I really don't have a good excuse not to, but at the same time, as I said before, why do it just because some people are rude and inconsiderate? Why put the entire phone on silent, what if my dad had a heart attack or my mom got into a car accident?

[Plaidman]

I am able to put texts on vibrate or silence, but if I turn the ringer off, then my alarm doesn't work. Hence why people kept patronizing me to get an alarm clock, and I really don't have a good excuse not to, but at the same time, as I said before, why do it just because some people are rude and inconsiderate? Why put the entire phone on silent, what if my dad had a heart attack or my mom got into a car accident?

Thus the asskicking. Your a tough cookie Blas. They'll back off if you give them your death glare, followed by "Do. Not. Call. Me. Between. Noon. And. Five"


Unless of course its a real emergency.

[elsporko]

I got all those texts today between noon and 5 pm. Of course I was infuriated, I was trying to sleep because I go back to work tonight.

I have a problem with anyone who thinks nothing of texting me any old time of day, having no regard for the shift that I work.

I don't want an alarm clock, either. I shouldn't have to get one just because people are rude and inconsiderate. And why ditch the phone just in case there were a real emergency?

And of course everybody knows when you work a weird shift and are asleep during the day. Its not like they have their own lives to live and don't spend all their time keeping track of you.

[HYHYBT]

I've called/texted people at bad times *by mistake* occasionally, but to deliberately set off someone's phone late at night on a holiday that does not, traditionally, involve staying up? Very rude.

On a side note (and only because some people are talking of alarm clocks, not because I think you should have to get one) I got a software alarm clock recently. It goes off by waking my computer, setting the volume to 100%, and playing, for now at least, player piano music at me. (not an objectionable sound, but also not one I could sleep through or listen to indefinitely while forgetting that I'm supposed to be getting up.)

[Greenday]

I don't mind the midnight ones. I'm usually awake until at least 2am every day anyway (except during the past previous couple summers as I had work at 7:30am Mon-Fri). It's the 8am wake up texts on holidays that I have off that piss me off. First off, why the hell are you awake at 8am on a Friday when you are 20+ years old and the youngest member of your family? And even then, when is it EVER acceptable to text me at 8am, any day of the year, when it's not an emergency. If it's a day off, someone better be dying for me to be woken up by that non-sense at 8am. My aunt and my dad are big ones on this. "I thought you'd be awake!" Um, why?

[Plaidman]

I don't mind the midnight ones. I'm usually awake until at least 2am every day anyway (except during the past previous couple summers as I had work at 7:30am Mon-Fri). It's the 8am wake up texts on holidays that I have off that piss me off. First off, why the hell are you awake at 8am on a Friday when you are 20+ years old and the youngest member of your family?

Sweet! Cans I be a text buddy? puhleeeeeeeeeeeease? I won't do it that early. (assuming you tell me what time zone you are).

But side note, I'm youngest in my family. I'm usually awake that early, cause well, just getting off work myself.

When I was working anway.